Re: Keywords

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> Denis McKeon writes:
>
> > Note that the description seems to allow key-phrases, e.g.:
> >
> > Keywords: FAQ maintain, automatic post, news.answers
> >
> > but hides that possibilty in the mixed usages of (key-)word and
> > (plain-)phrase. The description should: s/keyword/keyphrase/g
> > throughout - too bad we can't do that with the Keywords: header itself.
>
> It does not allow the header you have described. To conform, it should be:
>
> Keywords: "FAQ maintain", "automatic post", news.answers

Son-of-1036 (at least, the draft I downloaded a few weeks
ago) permits a keyword to be a plain-phrase, which may
consist of an unquoted space-separated list of words. So

Keywords: FAQ maintain, automatic post, news.answers

is a legitimate three-keyword header under this grammar.

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